Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 62
Having done this he said, "Sirs, now it is time to show your courage, if you would have freedom instead of bondage."
Who acts: arm, chamber, you · What happens: do, say, be, show, have · To what, where: this, Sirs, time, courage, freedom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arm, chamber, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 done | aux |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sirs | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sirs | punct |
| 8 | Sirs | sir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 time | punct |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 time | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 time | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 time | cop |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 show | mark |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 time | acl |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 courage | nmod:poss |
| 17 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 show | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 23 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 26 bondage | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 instead | fixed |
| 26 | bondage | bondage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund · perfect | arm not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | arm | Sirs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | chamber | time | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | show in a quote | to-infinitive | arm not said here | your courage | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent courage=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | you | freedom | instead bondage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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